Pleasing paradoxes in Newfane, Vermont
“I’m playing The Rolling Stones since we’re going to the inn,” my sister Gina said, pumping up the volume as I got in the…
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Celebrate the spirit of giving
A charmed winemaking life
“I don’t drink Chardonnay,” a smart lawyer- friend of mine told me not long ago. I asked her why and she told me, “It’s…
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A taste of the sea
Leslie and Elizabeth Barnes have transformed an 18th-century granary (later home to the Willett House restaurant) into a virtual haven for seafood seekers along…
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A No-Bake Canoli Recipe
December is a bustling month. Your ovens will be filled with cooking for the holidays, so here is a great recipe that requires no…
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From Bali to Bloomie’s
Two years ago, WAG had the pleasure of interviewing Guy Bedarida — then creative director/head designer of John Hardy — at an event at…
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Leader of the pack
There’s something truly magical about listening to the melodic three-part harmony of Alawa and her two brothers, Nikai and Zephyr. The sound starts with…
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Still charming
When WAG first visited with Samantha Levine back in 2013, the founder and creative director of Auburn Jewelry had put her law career on…
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A home of their own
The measure of your life will not be what you will accumulate but in what you give away.” —Wayne W. Dyer, American philosopher In…
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The beautiful life
The teal-hued walls of Giordano Beauty in Hastings-on-Hudson are filled with vintage cosmetic ads. The glamorous women in exotic locales captivated a beauty-obsessed Susan…
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Sisley-Paris’ new product says to heck with tech neck
Ah, the neck – such a fragile part of the body as giraffes and the late Nora Ephron (author of “I Feel Bad About…
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